An-Najah News - An-Najah National University Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences organized an awareness lecture  about Coronavirus, methods of transmission and prevention from it.

The lecture  (Coronavirus: How to Protect Yourself) was presented by Dr. Suad Belkabir a Public Health and Preventive Medicine specialists at the college.

This lecture comes as part of the awareness campaign launched by the college to raise societal awareness of the Coronavirus among university staff and students as representatives of the university.

The lecture was attended by a number of students, academics and administrators, and was opened by Dr. Bilal Rahal, Director of the Department of Biomedical Sciences, who stressed the importance of having virus awareness,especially in light of the negative psychological impact of the virus that pervades society, and the conflicting and inaccurate information by social media.

Dr. Belkabir she began with the necessity of adopting an accurate source of information, which is the World Health Organization (the Regional Office for the Middle East) in addition to the information published by the Ministry of Health without tracking any information from other sources that may be wrong.

she added Palestine is among only 49 countries around the world that have an accurate examination for Corona virus, through central laboratories in Ramallah, and that all 83 samples that were tested in Ramallah were not infected with the disease.

As for the ways to prevent the virus, she said you can prevent it by washing hands well with soap and water or alcohol, and in the case of coughing or sneezing, use tissues, avoid close contact, avoid direct contact with animals without protection, and cook meat well when cooking it.